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theweaselkingConcerned "Christians" object to The Book Of Daniel the way they always do: rationally, calmly, with logical arguments, and by not watching the show they don't like. And by that, I mean issuing death threats against the staff of TV stations who broadcast the program.
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Date: 2006-01-10 04:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-10 04:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-10 04:45 pm (UTC)And the link still works for me.
Death Threats Over TV Show With Gay Character
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: January 10, 2006 - 12:01 am ET
(Terre Haute, Indiana) Police in Terre Haute are investigating death threats against the manager and program director at KWBF-TV after the station decided to run the NBC series "The Book of Daniel".
Executives at the station have been given security, and guards are posted at the studios.
Terre Haute's NBC affiliate refused to air the show's premiere Friday after pressure from the American Family Association and area pastors. KWBF, a WB affiliate then agreed to run the series. (story)
Threats to the station began pouring in shortly after it made the announcement. They continued after the show aired and police were called in.
Station manager Gary Robbins defends the decision to run the series and says despite the threats there are no plans to cancel it.
"We've had hate mail, we've had hate phone calls... but there's no profanity in this show, there's no indecency, there's no nudity," he said.
Four stations across the country, including the Terre Haute NBC outlet are refusing the show "The Book of Daniel" as a result of the AFA pressure campaign. But four other station that originally said they would boycott the show reversed course and decided to air it. (story)
Monday the AFA called on its members to keep up the pressure on other affiliates. In an email AFA Donald E. Wildmon told the group's followers also to put pressure on the show's advertisers which include Just For Men, Mazda, H&R Block, and Burlington Coat Factory.
"The Book of Daniel" features one of primetime's few openly gay male characters, has a lesbian supporting character and is written by a gay screenwriter.
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Date: 2006-01-10 04:40 pm (UTC)Still works for me.
Date: 2006-01-10 04:46 pm (UTC)Death Threats Over TV Show With Gay Character
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: January 10, 2006 - 12:01 am ET
(Terre Haute, Indiana) Police in Terre Haute are investigating death threats against the manager and program director at KWBF-TV after the station decided to run the NBC series "The Book of Daniel".
Executives at the station have been given security, and guards are posted at the studios.
Terre Haute's NBC affiliate refused to air the show's premiere Friday after pressure from the American Family Association and area pastors. KWBF, a WB affiliate then agreed to run the series. (story)
Threats to the station began pouring in shortly after it made the announcement. They continued after the show aired and police were called in.
Station manager Gary Robbins defends the decision to run the series and says despite the threats there are no plans to cancel it.
"We've had hate mail, we've had hate phone calls... but there's no profanity in this show, there's no indecency, there's no nudity," he said.
Four stations across the country, including the Terre Haute NBC outlet are refusing the show "The Book of Daniel" as a result of the AFA pressure campaign. But four other station that originally said they would boycott the show reversed course and decided to air it. (story)
Monday the AFA called on its members to keep up the pressure on other affiliates. In an email AFA Donald E. Wildmon told the group's followers also to put pressure on the show's advertisers which include Just For Men, Mazda, H&R Block, and Burlington Coat Factory.
"The Book of Daniel" features one of primetime's few openly gay male characters, has a lesbian supporting character and is written by a gay screenwriter.
Re: Still works for me.
Date: 2006-01-10 04:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-10 05:40 pm (UTC)Either way.
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Date: 2006-01-10 08:52 pm (UTC)I think the government is censoring your internet, babe.
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Date: 2006-01-10 10:57 pm (UTC)Weird. Just checking, not having heard of it before, is it just a gay character, or is "the book of" a biblical allusion of some sort as well?
ie, what's the fuss?
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Date: 2006-01-10 11:56 pm (UTC)It's a standard AFA tempest in a teapot.
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Date: 2006-01-11 12:09 am (UTC)Can we say red rag to a bull? If they broadcast it over here, I'll think about getting a TV licence, Christian Voice will, um, love it.
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Date: 2006-01-10 07:21 pm (UTC)__________
*Recent biblical scholarship reveals that the name Jesus is a non-Hebrew, synthetic word created via two sequential mistranslations from Aramaic and Greek into Latin via an overworked, perhaps, translator. The more appropriate name is Yeshua (what we'd say Joshua), as indicated in the older of the two testaments.
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Date: 2006-01-10 08:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-10 11:20 pm (UTC)[It was s'posed to read "pagans"...]
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Date: 2006-01-11 10:48 pm (UTC)